The Best RPG of 2011r

It has been a while since Skirim the last of this years big condeners has hitted shelfs.

So witch one in your opinion deserves the title od 2011 best?

Dragon Age 2 - a good game, but it lacks excellence of the originall. Relativly shallow and dumbed down when compered to DA1.

Witcher 2 - a strong canddidate. Still it had weird diffultity progression ( man, i thought i would uninstall it before i managed to complete ballista quest), and night empty 3rd act.

Skyrim - i admit i havent played it much yet. Still i know it has some typicall problems of them TES series - glitches, bugs, etc. Luckilly not too many.

Fable III - i know nothing about the game. I put it here just to be taken into consideration

others - i don't predent to know every game released this year, so if you have an other fauvorite, go ahead.

I concentreed on the negatives. Still all seem to be good games. I personaly vote witcher 2, for i prefer story riven RPG over sandbox ones. I admit i cant speak about Skirim too much yet.

No Dark Souls? Really?rengoyU

Edit, I haven't played any from 2011 :x... so I vote Fable 3 for the lulz

^^this is the PC board.

Witcher 2 easily, with Deus Ex in second.

I'm afraid to say that Skyrim didn't grab me like it did others, proably because I think dragons are the lowest of the low as far as fantasy plot tropes go.

Its still a great game that I'm getting enjoyment out of, but its too buggy and the main quest is too generic (and broken, damnit Esburn) for it to surpass Deus Ex or Witcher 2 which had very strong, mature stories that really made me think.

I found Witcher 2 to be incredibly engrossing and beutiful, but also very dark and mature at the same time. The janky combat has been improved with the last couple patches, and choices you make have really impressive impacts in how the game plays out. I can still recall the names, personalities and roles of most major characters in The Witcher 2, something few games can do.

Witcher 2, how is this even a question?

Witcher 2, how is this even a question?

Whiteblade999

I haven't tried out competitiors, at least not all of them :D

haven't played any of them but withcher 2 is really the only one i'm interested in playing.

Skyrim and The Witcher2 for me. (Deus Ex HR I dont consider a rpg first, more of a fps with rpg elements. Awesome game though).

On the indie scene I would have to say To The Moon and Bastion (Avadon was good to)

Deus Ex is definitely a RPG...

1.Skyrim

2.Deus Ex

3. Dragon age 2

4.The Witcher 2.

I've only finished two RPGs this year. Witcher 2 and River of Time. I'd say Witcher 2, but it is not so far apart from Drakensang. The game makes up for an old style rpg.

Skyrim is a great game, but Witcher 2 is my RPG of the year, and game of the year too

No Dark Souls? Really?rengoyU

I didn't know Dark Souls came out on PC...

I think the stronger main story of the Witcher 2 takes it for me.

I appriciate the incredible open world experience that Skyrim offers, but it's just not as appealing as a great main narrative for my money.

it was close between witcher 2 and skyrim, but im gonna go with witcher 2, is just awesome.

So it's all between W2 and Skyrim.

Not big suprise.

I'm a bit biased towards Skyrim, but I had more fun with it than with TW2, so Skyrim.

Skyrim and Deus Ex made my year in gaming.

Skyrim and Deus Ex made my year in gaming.

grafficsak

Add witcher 2 in there an you have a winnter..All three where great..Nothing wrong with dao2 graphics..Just the story and the dumb downon the items..The thrill bored me to tears..

Dark Souls, New Vegas DLC (Dead Money & Old World Blues)

Title and 1st post says nothing about it being PC only.

Dark Souls, New Vegas DLC (Dead Money & Old World Blues)

Title and 1st post says nothing about it being PC only.

bussinrounds

:P

Skyrim, by far.

Witcher 2, easily.

story, quests and npc: very important in an rpg for me, so I vote Witcher 2. Skyrim is awesome though, thing is, I don't really care much for its world or its npcs. But the witcher 2 is my ultimate game of the year.

Definitely skyrim...

Skyrim without a doubt for me. Already at 100 hours and I think i'm only halfway through the main quest.

Witcher 2 was absolutly fantastic too.

Haven't played Deus Ex yet, but am looking forward to it.

What a year for RPGs. I think we can all agree on that.

The Witcher 2 is an easy win, from that list.

Skyrim has terrible roleplaying - the quests are mostly linear (both in the literal sense of dungeons feeling like they're on-rails, and in the sense that you have no real say in how quests play out), the very few choices you can make have no significant consequences (even your choice of race is essentially meaningless, in a game that attempts racist undertones), and the world is almost entirely static/unresponsive (besides the guards greeting you in different ways,and more dragons turning up later in the main quest), .
Beyond the shoddy roleplaying, the game itself isn't too bad (nor is it particularly outstanding), but it's full of poor design choices and riddled with bugs, so The Witcher 2 wins there as well.

[QUOTE="Whiteblade999"]

Witcher 2, how is this even a question?

innominatus2

I haven't tried out competitiors, at least not all of them :D

Well, Skyrim isn't an RPG. Ignoring the stat 'requirement' the game pretty much consists of nothing but dungeon crawling with pretty much no choice. It is good for what it is don't get me wrong but calling it an RPG is like calling Quake an adventure game.

Deus Ex 3 is pretty good and has quite a few choices in there. My biggest complaint about the game was the Bioware style of dialog, there are a lot of choices for flavor but they pretty much amount to 0. Really kills replayability. I know a lot of other RPGs are plagued with this problem but given the series I sort of expected a little more in the way of replayability.

Drakensang: River of Time (released over here in 2011) is pretty good from what I played but I'm not a huge fan of the Dark Eye ruleset. If I actually finished this one all the way through I could see it being my RPG of the year because real time with pause is my favorite type of game.

Cthhulu Saves the World is a nice throw back JRPG but it relies too much on nostalgia and being funny.

E.Y.E Divine Cybermany has the best combat in pretty much any FPS/RPG hybrid but the translation is god awful at best making it hard to really enjoy.

Bastion I have yet to play aside from the demo. It looked really well done but still didn't pull me in enough to purchase it.

Still need to play Avadon but it looks like a solid game, same as all of Jeff's other games.

Witcher 2 has strong choices that actually matter, good combat, good dialog and strong replayability because of the 2 paths.

Edit: I noticed someone mentioned To the Moon. Wouldn't that be considered an adventure game over an RPG since the game (from what I've heard, its on the play list) consists of the player going through the story occasionally solving puzzles?

Skyrim and The Witcher2 for me. (Deus Ex HR I dont consider a rpg first, more of a fps with rpg elements. Awesome game though).

On the indie scene I would have to say To The Moon and Bastion (Avadon was good to)

kozzy1234

A tie between Skyrim & Witcher 2 for me.

The Witcher 2 and Deus Ex HR.

I would say To the Moon as well but it´s more of an adventure game.

I have to go with the The Witcher 2 on this one. Skyrim impressed the heck out of me at first but quickly got old.